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Clinton makes just one 'excruciating' Iowa mention
Jennifer Jacobs
jejacobs@dmreg.com
Hillary Clinton mentions Iowa just once in her new memoir, "Hard Choices."
And it's in a sentence that includes the word "excruciating."
The book wasn't exactly flying off the shelves here, a spot check of local bookstores showed on Tuesday, the day of its release. But it's not yet high season for the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses. Voters here can wait for authors/presidential-wannabes to turn up in person, as they inevitably do.
Clinton dedicated 74 days to campaigning in Iowa during her 2008 bid for the White House, only to suffer an embarrassing third-place finish in the Democratic caucuses.
The lone Iowa reference in "Hard Choices" is part of a positive passage about how she "learned a lot from losing." But she doesn't share a single anecdote or dwell on the time she spent here.
"The night of the Iowa caucuses, when I placed third, was excruciating," she wrote.
Clinton has a brighter outlook about later states. Of New Hampshire, the state that follows Iowa on the presidential voting calendar, she writes: "I found my footing and my voice. My spirits were lifted."
Despite Iowa Democrats' preference for Barack Obama in 2008, they're now salivating for Clinton to run in 2016, The Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll found earlier this year. And it's not just Democrats who like her: 50 percent of Iowans ages 18 and older said it's a "good idea" for her to run, a late February poll found.
Some fear Clinton might skip Iowa
Some Democratic leaders have confided that they harbor concerns that Clinton isn't terribly fond of Iowa, and that if she decides to run for president in 2016 as many predict, she might jump over Iowa and dedicate more time courting voters in other early states. After all, her husband, Bill Clinton, didn't compete in the Iowa caucuses in 1992, proving a Democratic candidate can bypass the first-in-the-nation vote and still win the White House, Iowa activists have noted.
A spokesman for Clinton told the Register in August 2013 that Clinton "looks back on it all fondly," referring to the 2008 campaign in general.
But in "Hard Choices," Clinton says her campaign "was long and exhausting, and cost way too much money." She is frank about how deeply disappointed she was to lose to fellow Democrat Barack Obama, saying that by the time he had the nomination sealed, she and her staffers "had long lists of grievances."
And the feeling was mutual, she said. "There had been hot rhetoric and bruised feelings on both sides," Clinton writes. "Despite a lot of pressure from his backers, I had refused to quit until the last."
Amazon.com officials noted that the hardcover edition was ranked No. 2 on Amazon's national bestsellers list on Tuesday afternoon, but weren't able to get Iowa-specific sales numbers by the Register's deadline. And Officials with Apple iBooks didn't respond to a request for download numbers.
Beaverdale Books, in a Des Moines neighborhood nicknamed Obamadale during the 2012 general election season, had only two preorders, a clerk said.
Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City also saw just a handful of purchases.
"I think the psychology with this one is, people are asking themselves, 'How many hard-cover Hillary books am I going to have in my house?'" said Paul Ingram, the buyer for Prairie Lights.
Ingram said images of the cover of Clinton's new book are "everywhere."
"It's not as though they weren't trying to market it," he said.
But the hottest reads at Prairie Lights tend to be "books by local people," Ingram said. He predicted two books expected out this fall will be best-sellers in Iowa: "Lila," by Marilynne Robinson, a faculty member of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and "Some Luck," by Jane Smiley, who was on the faculty at Iowa State University.
'08 Iowa co-chairwoman snatches up a copy
One of the first Iowans to buy "Hard Choices" was Dr. Andrea McGuire, who was co-chairwoman of Clinton's 2008 campaign in Iowa. "I want to see what she has to say about what she did as secretary of state and how she's become the great leader she is," she said.
It wasn't a leap to suspect McGuire would add the book to her collection. The license plate on her Buick Enclave says "HRC 2016."
"It was a Christmas gift from my kids," said McGuire, who lives in Des Moines. "They said what would their mom like best and what she would like is for Hillary to be president."
Democratic activist Connie Gronstal of Council Bluffs admitted she has been too busy to buy Clinton's new book, but she has another reason for not rushing to make the purchase.
"I want a signed copy," Gronstal said.
That means waiting for Clinton to bring her book tour to Iowa, she said.
So far, the closest city on Clinton's schedule is Chicago. That stop is this morning.
Trailing her to each stop is a red-white-and-blue bus emblazoned with "Join the movement" and "Ready for Hillary," the name of the super PAC that's encouraging Clinton to run in 2016.
That bus tour started in Iowa. On Saturday night, Ready for Hillary organizers invited longtime Democratic activists and newcomers to gather at Exile brew pub in Des Moines, to talk and connect, said Adam Parkhomenko, the PAC's executive director.
Later, when the bus was parked outside the Hampton Inn in West Des Moines or at local stores while organizers bought supplies for the road trip, "people were lined up taking pictures," Parkhomenko said. "The bus is a great hook."
Some Iowa Democrats hope Clinton will come for the last steak fry of Tom Harkin's tenure in the U.S. Senate. The fundraiser has been a rite of passage for Democrats with an eye on the White House.
But Harkin hasn't made a formal invitation to anyone to be the keynote speaker for the fall 2014 event, an aide said. "While the Clintons are always welcome in Iowa, plans are still coming together for the final steak fry," Harkin spokeswoman Kate Cyrul Frischmann said.
In an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer that aired Sunday, Clinton said she "will be on the way to making a decision by the end of the year."
Which could mean Iowans won't catch sight of Clinton here until 2015.


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Question: Have there ever been people who listened to Kabbalists and followed their advice?
Answer: In ancient times, it was not about one Kabbalist or another, but about a whole period of development: the era of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Joshua…Those are periods, rather than people as such. The spirit of the person was active in that time and made what it did. For example, Moses built the nation and contributed the methodology of correction to the desires that were unveiling at that time. As a result, he brought the nation to the Land of Israel, that is, to the revelation of the Creator.
Everything is carried out by the Kabbalists, although we cannot see it during the exile. Kabbalists are the ones by whom the world is being "charged," which allows it to exist. Without a sparkle of Light, this world would never have appeared in the first place and matter could not have existed. There always are the Kabbalists who, according to their Kelim, belong to the generality of humanity as well as to a spiritual degree.
It is said that "the tail of the lion," the nine lower Sefirot of the world of Atzilut, together with the Light of Hochma descend to the worlds of BYA and become "the head of the fox" (shualim), in other words, those who ask questions (shoalim). After all, that's where the broken vessels are located, and so, the question arises: How do we correct them?
We need this connection as well as a permanent opportunity to transition between the levels. In this world, it is ensured by the Kabbalists. On one hand, they are dressed the same as others so that they can teach us. On the other hand, they are a part of a higher degree. There is no other way to achieve this because we are a part of the general system that lives in accordance with rigid laws.
Returning to the question:. After a long exile, Jewish people listened to the advice of the great Kabbalists during the time of Baal Shem Tov and his disciples. They led the nation, guided it forward, and gave birth to generations who lived in accordance with spiritual attainment—to people who connected "the ground" of this world with the height of Ein Sof (Infinity). It was a period of great Kabbalists who were operating in both worlds at the same time.
As to the severe detachment (interruption) of the spiritual connection that was created within the last one hundred years, it is probably something that was supposed to happen. The situation is really critical at this time. And yet, it is said: "I have not forsaken Israel." Even today, there are Kabbalists who convey illumination from the spiritual world to ours.
Our world is a tiny dark spot in the center of spiritual universe. It is essential to bring the Light into it, otherwise it won't be able to endure. Throughout all the worlds, the Light descends directly to this plane, to our corrupt desires, and Kabbalists are the ones who safeguard this ray of Light.
You call them "people," although it has nothing to do with a body, but rather it is about certain desires or states (Kelim). They act deliberately, so that they can descend even lower and be closer to us. For example, Baal HaSulam asked to be lowered in order to be able to write and help those living below.
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My Comment: An integral society, which we have to accept and which obliges us through the evolutionary development of society, assumes a uniform level of prosperity for everyone, that is, to achieve relative equality for everyone, like in one family. Only in this case will we obtain stability in our new development.
Those who are going through integral studies need to know that they aren't assembling together as a regular group for pleasant communication that might not lead to anything: to talk and flee. They gather together in order to connect with each other, and in this connection to realize the next level of their perception, of the communication between them, of their state.
The matter is that everything we are based on in our everyday life comes to us at the level of inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature. Thus, psychologists deal with psychology on the animate level of humans, and we deal with human psychology, the psychology of "turning" people into human beings. Therefore, at the beginning of the studies one needs to explain the task to people so that they'll understand how serious and special it is, and that it requires a certain inner tension from them.
In our regular life, we are directed through instincts that come to us from our ancestors, from the tribal feeling that existed long before the appearance of cultures, the development of civilization, and long before the technological and social progress. We use these instincts unconsciously, but they constantly direct us, and we can't rid ourselves of them.
This is the failure of all psychological treatments, since we try to treat human society, the communication between people and of man himself, as part of the society at the same level he is on today. It's as if we try to change the instincts, the communication between us, and that's practically impossible.
We place the person in certain narrow limits where there is some kind of correction, and as a result of that it's more convenient for him to do it this way or that way. He somehow combines within him his instincts, manipulates them a little, and it seems to us that he behaves correctly, according to the desires of society, the family, etc.
But it is not enough to attain the correct behavior from a person today. Thus, lately, psychology has developed in order to realize, to some extent, the way to change a person, the society, a person in society. But the important thing is to discover its initial failure, and rise to the next level.
The current state of the world is much worse than we feel, see and know. It is true that we do not talk about it because politicians and economists are not interested in creating a panic. They have no answer to the question about the crisis. They have no answer, and there is nothing you can do. Why should one panic in vain? And they're right.
But we need to provide to people who are in a state of fear of hunger, drought, cold, shock, and the unpredictable approaching from all sides now. We should try to absorb all the animal fears of the world, fears of survival. They help us to gather and reveal that force, the surrounding Light (Ohr Makif), which will pass through us to the world, and everything will calm down. All the countries, societies, and people will begin to interact because they will understand that this is the only way to bring the world to balance, that not the still, not the vegetative, not the animate nature, but only the human being disturbs harmony, and everything else is disturbed by his egoistic actions.
We lack anxiety; we lack internal hysteria. If it were there, it would be easier.
Our problem is that we are disconnected from this world and try to find a quiet corner somewhere in our higher place. This is not good. On the contrary, we should find, on one hand, the state of the greatness of the goal, and on the other hand, inner fears, because our egoism is fed only by these. Fear and the greatness of the goal are two great forces that are pushing us from behind (fear) and drawing us forward (the greatness of the goal). They will help us to unite.
We should put pressure on ourselves to try to absorb from the world all of its negative feelings that arise in connection with the crisis and to turn them into the force of our development. Indeed, development occurs under the law of "negation of negation." Until we feel more or less normal, we will not come to the next state. Only suffering or the greatness of the goal, when I suffer because I don't have it, makes us go.
There are two types of suffering: suffering from a lack of feeling and suffering from unfulfilled love.
The Crisis, When Will We Become Aware Of Your Cause?
A workshop is a special action. I would say sacred. We are going to clarify a question, namely to clarify, not to answer, so that it is clear to us. Then, I will talk about it to explain it in a few minutes. And then, sitting in a circle, we will discuss how to find a logical solution, the real solution to this question, but not what is described in our books. In no case we should rely on the wise sayings of Kabbalists, rather we communicate from our heart to keep connection with each other.
However, I must accept a friend as great, infallible. It does not matter what nonsense he says. It is my feeling that he is stupid; I feel that I see it because I am not sufficiently connected with him. If I loved him, I would have felt through him that the Creator speaks to me.
Thus, while sitting in a group of ten, we must understand clearly how to relate to each other. Representatives of the Creator are sitting in front of me, and they tell me the absolute truth. I have to suppress any criticism, any distrust, anything that might alienate me from them. They are, without realizing it, saying the things that I cannot agree with. I am against it; I don't want to hear it; I see everything stupid as having long passed, standard, and identical. It all seems so to me so that I rise above myself.
So, here we face a huge internal work.
Question: What should we expect from dissemination?
Answer: Dissemination makes new points in the heart (•) awaken below, who come and join us since they pertain the category of Israel, like all our friends around the world.
This is the upper Partzuf. Below is the part that pertains to Israel from birth. In other words, it already has experienced spiritual ascent and breaking, and lower is the part of the "nations of the world," souls deprived of Reshimot, the "genetic" spiritual memory, and they lack the point in the heart. They are awakened by the Surrounding Light.
Let us examine this through the simple design of two Partzufim—Israel and the nations of the world—where each one divides in two: an internal part (A) and an external part (B). Israel has a point in the heart, and must maintain a connection with the upper Light, attracting it and introducing it into the inner part of the nations of the world.
We, like the nations, also have problems, only we regard them as the means for advancement. However, if we were to advance at the right speed, we would not experience problems. We would only reveal the need for adhesion in its pure form. Problems, which do not seem to be related to spirituality, are caused by our delay in development.
Regarding the nations of the world, they must pressure us with the so-called MAN (appeal for the Light), and we must pass this pressure above, also as a request, but of a different quality.
However, our state is not yet corrected the way it potentially can be corrected, and this is why, instead of feeling a spiritual appeal from the nations, we feel physical pressure to the point of hatred, murder, and threats of complete destruction. Instead of spiritual means, the system influences us with rough, physical methods because there are no appeals or answers to these appeals going through it, and there is a bad negative connection between its parts.
Question: What should spiritual pressure be like? How is it different from physical pressure?
Answer: Spiritual pressure also manifests physically, but in accordance with our degree. The upper governance never changes. It is the same "Good Who does good." He only appears to be very bad when we fall behind.
A child who has failed to graduate the third grade when he should be in fifth grade, regards his parents the same way. Their demands seem to be extreme, harsh, and very difficult, but it is only because he is not yet ready. If he wanted to correspond to his level and advance, he would regard his parents' demands as helpful, and then they would direct him toward the next degree. Instead of hard pressure, he would feel as if he were being taken by his hand and guided in the right direction.
To help a child solve a problem at hand, he is asked leading questions that help him advance, become wiser, and grow. He is given building blocks, puzzles, and other games, to help him develop, and he understands it. However, what can you do when it is time for him to learn to play chess, and he still walks around with a pacifier and plays with rattles?
So, when we are on an adequate level of development, we then experience the upper One as "Good Who does good." We feel while in the opposite way that: He wants to pull us to the next level and this is why He has demands; however, we read these demands incorrectly.
Today, we are in the middle between this state and regular concealment where it already is possible to justify the upper One and understand that He conceals Himself in order to raise us and take care of us. This is similar to the way a child receives a set of building blocks and not the actual construction, not the prepared result, and if the child is bright, he understand that this is done for his own good, for his development.
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Nil Yalter (born 1938) is a Turkish contemporary feminist artist. She attended Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey and currently lives and works in Paris. Her work, which is included in many collections and museums, includes not only drawings and photographs, but also videos and performance art. In fact she is the first Turkish female video artist.

Early life
Nil Yalter was born in 1938 in Cairo, Egypt where she lived until the age of four. She is Turkish and later in her life became also a French national. She received her education from Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. She started painting at an early age and took dance and ballet classes. In 1956, she traveled to India on foot while practicing pantomime. She had her first exhibition of paintings inspired by this travel at the French Cultural Institute in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1957. Between 1963 and 1964 she worked as stage and costume designer for theatre companies in Istanbul. In 1963, she participated at the 3rd Paris Biennale with abstract compositions under the curatorship of Nurullah Berk. She moved to Paris in 1965, after she became politically involved with sociological topics, specifically focusing migration and women. Her poster exhibition, that has been hung around the world, was subject to criticism. The poster writes ″Şu Gurbetlik Zor Zaanat Zor″ in Turkish which has been translated as ″Exile is hard work″, aims to raise awareness of the situation of people in exile. However, "gurbetlik" does not mean "exile", but rather someone living in a different country than their own.

Early career
Yalter moved to Paris in 1965 and took part in the French counterculture and revolutionary movements which prompted her to move away from abstract constructivist painting to start working with the medium of video and to use her own body. In the 1970s, she led the beginning of the French feminist art movement. In 1973, Yalter created an installation inspired by the temporary dwelling structures of Turkic nomads titled Topak Ev, a nomad's tent as a study of private, public and feminine spaces at A.R.C. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Topak Ev marked the beginning of Yalter's use of sociological and ethnographic methods in her work. While the installation was based on research conducted around Niğde on nomadic tents, the exhibition also included panels gathering drawings, collages, photographs and handwritten descriptions on the structure and dimensions of nomadic tents, materials used in their making and decorative elements. In 1974, she created a video titled The Headless Woman (The Belly Dance), a piece that stands out in French contemporary art history as one of the early feminist-art classics. The video frames the artist's belly as she writes a text on around her navel. The text is an excerpt from René Nelli's Erotique et Civilisations (1972) and states that "a woman's sexuality is both convex and concave", emphasizing the vaginal and clitoral orgasmic potentials of women. Yalter then "activates" the text by belly dancing, the gyrations of her belly animate the letters. The work is emblematic of some of the formal gestures and critical strategies Yalter developed in the coming years: creating a reversal of the male gaze by objectifying her own body through the camera, Yalter refers to women's sexual liberation from patriarchal control, while at the same time commenting on the Orientalist eroticization of Middle Eastern women in Western art.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Yalter created a series of works combining her interest in gender issues and feminism with a focus on marginalized communities such as migrant workers in Europe and former prisoners. Temporary Dwellings, first exhibited in Grenoble, France, in 1977 investigates the living conditions and experiences of migrant workers as told by women. A video installation created in collaboration with Judy Blum and Nicole Croizet in 1974, La Roquette, Prison de Femmes reconstructs the living conditions in the Roquette women's prison in Paris with a video and series of photographs and drawings based on former inmate Mimi's memories related to daily rites and objects describing the experience of a panoptical space.

Yalter was a member of several collectives of female artists in Paris in the 1970s, such as Femmes en Lutte and Femmes/Art which gathered around socially engaged practices and the women's struggle for visibility in the arts. From 1980 to 1995, Yalter acted as an associate at Sorbonne University.

Later career

In the 1990s, with the advent of digital technologies, Nil Yalter developed her video practice by using 3D animation techniques and electronic sound editing. Multiplying the image and its surface by way of geometrical shapes, this use of digital techniques operates interruptions within the image and opens up a space for intertextuality in her video works. Most emblematic of this process is Pixellismus (1996) which took the form of an interactive CD-ROM. The work is an investigation of the relationship between Byzantine mosaics and pixels, inspired by the writings of Malevitch on modernism.

In 2007 Nil Yalter participated at the traveling survey exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution organized by Cornelia Butler with La Roquette, Prison de Femmes. The exhibition brought wider international exposure to Yalter's work, and she has enjoyed a large number of solo exhibitions since then. In 2016, she had two retrospectives, "Off The Record" at Arter, Istanbul and "Nil Yalter", Frac Lorraine, Metz, and a monographic exhibition at La Verriere - Fondation Hermes, Brussels, followed by "D'apres Stimmung" in 2017 at Ludwig Museum, Cologne. In 2018, she was the recipient of "Outstanding Merit Award" AWARE 2018.

Her most recent works produced between 2015 and 2018 were exhibited at her solo exhibition Kara Kum at Galerist, Istanbul in March–April 2018.

Collections
Nil Yalter's works are held in the permanent collections of Tate Modern, İstanbul Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Fonds national d'art contemporain, Ludwig Museum, Long Beach Museum, Aksanat, Koç Contemporary, Reydan Weiss Collection, Deutsche Telekom Art Collection, Foto Colectania Foundation, Coleccion Olorvisual and Sammlung Verbund.

Exhibitions
Nil Yalter has participated at the 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014), the 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), 10th Paris Biennale (1977) and traveling survey exhibitions such as WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; PS1 MoMa New York; Contemporary Art Center Vancouver 2007-2008), elles@centrepompidou (Centre Pompidou Paris; Centro Cultural Banco de Brazil, Rio de Janeiro; Seattle Art Museum 2013) and Desire for Freedom (Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; Palazzo Reale, Milano; Eesti Kunstimuuseum – Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn; Muzeum Sztuki Wspólczesnej MOCAK, Krakau 2013).

In recent years her work has been shown at: Clark House Initiative / Kadist Art Foundation, Mumbai (2014); Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro (2014); SALT Istanbul (2013); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam (2012); Centro Cultural Belem Lisbon (2010); Akademie der Kunst Berlin (2009).

In 2019, Fabienne Dumont co-curated a retrospective at the MAC VAL and edited two books: Nil Yalter - Where the memories of migrants, feminists and workers meet mythology (Vitry-sur-Seine, MAC VAL, 2019) and Nil Yalter - Interview with Fabienne Dumont (Paris, Manuella Editions, 2019).

References

External links
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1938 births
Living people
20th-century Turkish women artists
21st-century Turkish women artists
20th-century French women artists
21st-century French women artists
Turkish feminists
French women photographers
Turkish performance artists
Turkish expatriates in France
Turkish women photographers
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Getting rich
How to get rich in the Trobriands
Preparing for one of the great feasts in the Trobriands. The pigs have been slaughtered and are laid out and the yams are piled up in the great conical display cases.
How do you become rich in Trobriand society? Well, first of all you must be born a chief in a high lineage. This means you can then have lots and lots of wives – up to 40 in the olden days, though by the time Malinowski had arrived in the Trobiands, the influence of the missionaries had reduced this to a mere 16. However, when you realise that each chief received somewhere between 30 and 50% of all the produce of all his wives' brothers, it is possible to understand how a well-married chief could become very wealthy indeed. Not that the wealth remained for long, for the chief also had his obligations: he had to organise tribal festivities and enterprises, furnish the food for big feasts, and tribal gatherings and distant expeditions; and he had to pay, according to custom, for the many services to which he is entitled.
The various forms of gift exchange are rooted in tradition, and Malinowski reckoned that there were at least five major types of exchange that took place. By far the most important – at least in amount – were what he called the 'customary payments' – the gifts payable partly to the chiefs but by far the majority to your in-laws, to your kinswomen and their families: for unmarried men, payments were paid to their mothers and sisters, but once they were married they would go to their wife's family. Of course it all evened out in the long run. Your wife would receive regular payments from her brothers, but the chief was expected to pay for lavish feasts and up to three quarters of your annual income could go in this way.
And then there was a second category of pure gifts. Foremost among these were gifts made from fathers to sons. Of course a father couldn't give real property to his sons because it all had to go to his in-laws but there were certain non-real property one could pass on such as knowledge of magic and dances. It was also possible to pass on say a tree or the rights to a plot of ground but only in one's life time. On your death it reverted to your wife's brothers' sons. or your sister's sons.
Putting a canoe into its hangar. The canoes on the east shores are seldom used, and when idle are housed in shelters built very much like ordinary houses, only much larger.
A third category is perhaps the most interesting of all because it consists of payments made to specialists such as magicians or boat builders. When a boat builder was first engaged he would be given valuable 'initial' gifts of food. Then while he was working on the boat he would be fed by the chief with extra special food with coconuts and betel nuts, pigs flesh, fish and fruits – not just the usual yams. But the really big gifts came when the boat was completed. There would be a couple of hundred baskets of yams, some pigs, a good supply of the 'sweeties' of the Trobriand world – betel nuts and coco nuts; and finally there were what he called 'native valuables' – armlets, bracelets and feather headdresses, and, most interesting to the archaeologist, polished stone axes. This is a category that comes closest to payment, but it was always given as gifts and was never bargained for.
One of the chiefs, seen standing in front of one of his decorated yam houses, his own dwelling in the background.
And then there was a very interesting system of regular gifts made to your 'exchange partners'. There was for example a regular arrangement for exchanging goods between the fishing communities on the coast and the yam growers on land. Each had a regular partner and the yams would be neatly packed up in baskets and left outside the house of your trading partner in the fishing village. Similarly when the fisherman returned laden with fish they would pack them up and lay them respectfully in front of the door of the yam growers. Often the amounts were far too much and the fish rotted before they could be consumed. But it was important to show generosity in your exchange, and the two sides vied with each other in their generosity, to see who could give the most generous gifts.
Compared with this was outright barter, which existed, and was known as gimwale, but it was considered a very miserable and degrading form of transaction. Thus when bartering was to take place, the yam growers would come down to the beach and barter yams for fish with clear intention of haggling and getting the better part of the exchange and with complete lack of ceremony. The most important barter took place with the tribes from the interior where the ground was too poor for gardening and so they specialised in manufactured goods – pots, necklaces, and stone axes. These were brought down regularly and bartered for yams with tribes of the most fertile areas, and for fish with the fishing villages. However this was something very much looked down upon: you did not do it yourself but sent your servant to do it on your behalf. Indeed when criticising bad behaviour, you say that it was done 'like a gimwali' -'gimwali walla!'
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Gomez overcomes crash to win in Sydney
Clocks the top run split too.
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Spain's Javier Gomez labeled his performance in the opening round of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series in Sydney as one of his toughest ever, as he fought back from a bike crash to claim an impressive victory.
A downpour of rain hit the course in the second lap of the elite men's bike and from then on it almost became a survival of the fittest, particularly when Gomez went down on the bike.
But the reigning ITU World Champion got back on, rode the last 10 kilometres by himself and then proved his class even further when he managed to catch the leading pack.
It was then whether Gomez still had the legs to out-run Jonathan Brownlee, Alistair Brownlee, Sven Riederer, Brendan Sexton and David Hauss. For a time it looked like the Brownlee brothers would work together to get there, but Alistair came unstuck when he fell rounding a corner in the rain and dropped off the pace.
Jonathan Brownlee fought to match Gomez but he couldn't as the two-time world champion broke away and finished with scintillating 30-minute, 9-second run. Brownlee ended up second, and Sven Riederer ran his way into third. But the afternoon really belonged to Gomez, and after showing his emotion with a fist-pump over the line, he said he wouldn't forget the race easily.
"It was definitely one of the hardest ones," Gomez said. "It doesn't happen many times that you crash and then you get up again and catch the first group again and then be the fastest runner, I'm really proud. I will always remember this race."
He also said it helped him to realize just how good his form was.
"I realized that I was fitter than I thought," he said. "I thought maybe I should give up after the crash, the time (gap) was a bit far and I wasn't sure if I would catch them or not and the rain and I realized I was really strong today."
Overall, the British men's team had a strong day with Jonathan Brownlee making the podium, Tim Don coming in sixth – 11 years after he competed in the Sydney Olympic Games Triathlon – and Will Clarke finishing ninth. Alistair Brownlee finished in 29th place, but if he hadn't have fallen, the Brits would likely have had four men within the top ten.
Sexton backed up his impressive silver medal from Mooloolaba two weeks ago with a solid fourth place here, top for the home team.
Last year's winner Bevan Docherty finished 18th, 2008 Olympic champion Jan Frodeno finished 45th, while 2011 Mooloolaba winner and last year's world championship bronze medallist Brad Kahlefeldt did not finish.
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2. Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) 1:50:29
3. Sven Riederer (SUI) 1:50:34
4. Brendan Sexton (AUS) 1:50:40
5. David Hauss (FRA) 1:50:49
6. Tim Don (GBR) 1:50:58
7. Jonathan Zipf (GER) 1:51:04
8. Joao Silva (POR) 1:51:17
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Trump Administration Mysteriously Grants Lucrative Waiver to Bank That President Owes Millions
The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates. One of the Trump administration waivers was granted to Deutsche Bank — which is owed at least $130 million by President Donald Trump and his business empire, and has also been fined for…

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Tax Bill: Fossil Fuel Provision Would Personally Enrich Republican Lawmakers
When Texas Sen. John Cornyn slipped an obscure tax break for pipeline giants into the GOP tax bill, he wasn't just helping major Republican Party donors, he was also potentially helping 16 of his congressional colleagues. Together those 16 lawmakers — 13 Republicans, three Democrats — own multimillion-dollar stakes in the special investment vehicles that stand to benefit from Cornyn's amendment. They include three of members of the Texas Congressional delegation: Sen. Ted Cruz and two top Republicans in the U.S. House.

Cornyn's amendment, which was introduced just hours before the Senate passed the tax bill on Dec. 2, provides a tax deduction for investors in energy-related master limited partnerships (MLPs) — investment entities primarily used by oil and gas pipeline corporations.

Federal lawmakers collectively own between $4.6 million and $10.6 million worth of energy-related MLPs, according to personal financial disclosures reviewed by International Business Times. Thirteen of the 16 lawmakers who own stakes in energy-related MLPs are Republicans. All 13 of those lawmakers voted for the tax bill in their respective chambers.

The filings detail lawmakers' ownership stakes through 2016 and provide dollar ranges, not specific figures, for the value of the legislators' assets.

Cornyn has defended the tax provision — a spokesperson for his office told the Huffington Post that "Under current law, publicly traded master limited partnerships (MLPS) are taxed as pass-through entities, and this amendment simply preserves that status in the new bill." But that status would be treated even more favorably under both the House and Senate bills, and the lawmakers who own stakes in these MLPs stand to benefit financially. Profits from MLPs would be given a 23 percent deduction in the Senate bill. In the House version, the tax rate on the income from MLPs would be capped at 25 percent — far below the typical 39.6 percent rate MLP investors currently pay on that income.

"Trump has set the tone for Republican officials, from the White House to the administration to Congress: self-dealing by public officials for personal gain is to be treated as business as usual and, if politically possible, no longer subject to ethics constraints," Public Citizen's Craig Holman told IBT after learning of lawmakers' personal financial interest in the tax provision. "Public officials in the Trump administration and the Republican Congress today have a green light to use their trusted positions to enrich themselves — and they are doing so."

Congress's top stakeholders in the MLPs are all Republicans -- they include Michigan Rep. David Trott(up to $4.4 million), New Jersey Rep. Tom MacArthur (up to $2.3 million), Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue (up to $1.25 million), Texas Rep. Pete Sessions (up to $550,000), Texas Rep. Kenny Marchant (up to $477,000) and Texas Sen. Cruz (up to $300,000). The tax provision could prove particularly lucrative for lawmakers, because their holdings can generate significant annual income — as one example, Cruz in 2016 listed more than $11,000 in earnings from his stake in one fossil fuel MLP.

On the whole, the 16 elected officials who own stakes in the MLPs are far wealthier than the average members of Congress — they have an average 2015 net worth of over $21 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. MacArthur, whose net worth is estimated at $64.5 million, was the lone member of the New Jersey congressional delegation, which includes five Republicans, to vote for the tax bill.

Lawmakers collectively have the largest ownership stakes in MLPs operated by Dallas-based Energy Transfer, Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners and Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream Partners. Individuals and political action committees associated with these three partnerships have together given nearly $2.5 million to federal Republican candidates since 2012, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Energy Transfer's CEO is a top Trump donor and one of the singlelargest donors to outside groups that back the GOP.

Federal disclosure records show that in 2017, all three companies' lobbyists have been pressing lawmakers on issues related to the taxation of partnerships.

A Last-Minute Tax Break For Investors In Fossil Fuel Pipelines

Apache Corporation, a fossil fuel firm, created the first MLP in the early 1980s to accomplish two goals: allow investors (which are partners in the MLP) to access capital markets and avoid corporate taxes. MLPs don't pay corporate taxes, because technically they aren't corporations. Income passes through the MLP to its partners, who then pay standard income tax rates on the profits they receive.

The last time Congress took up tax reform in 1986, lawmakers limited what kind of businesses could form MLPs in order to mitigate losses in corporate tax revenue that arose from the new business structure's popularity. The big winners of the new rules were oil and gas companies, which were allowed to continue forming MLPs.

Today the vast majority of MLPs are in the pipeline business, and MLPs are acutely aware their success depends upon a favorable tax status. While investors and partners in corporations are effectively taxed twice — first at the corporate level and then again at the personal level — MLPs are taxed only once, typically at the 39.6 percent top marginal tax rate.

"Our tax treatment depends on our status as a partnership for federal income tax purposes," Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P., a MLP, stated in a recent SEC filing. "If the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") treats us as a corporation or we become subject to a material amount of entity level taxation for state tax purposes, it would substantially reduce the amount of cash available for distribution to unitholders."

Under both the House and Senate version of the Republican tax bill, corporate tax rates would be slashed from 35 percent to 20 percent (although it's possible that figure could rise slightly during negotiations between the two chambers.) Since investors flock to MLPs to avoid so called "double taxation" — profits taxed once at the corporate level and again at the personal level — MLPs would be less attractive to investors at a 20 percent corporate tax rate than they would be at a 35 percent corporate rate. To ensure MLPs and other "pass-through" entities maintained their allure relative to other investment opportunities, Cornyn provided a fix. That fix could be codified into law next week, when Congress is expected to vote on the final version of the bill.

Robert Reich: How Clinton and Obama Failed to Defend the Middle Class
How did Donald Trump win the presidency? In a new podcast interview with International Business Times, former Clinton adminstration Labor Secretary Robert Reich says the Republican was able to take advantage of voters' frustration with both parties' failure to confront corporations' growing power over American life — and Reich faulted Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama…
Can Socialists Win the American Suburbs for Democrats?
Can Socialists Win The Suburbs For Democrats?
Should Democrats present a moderate corporate-friendly agenda to try to win suburban swing voters, or should they instead embrace the populist politics of Bernie Sanders? Lee Carter, the self-described socialist who won a pivotal election in Virginia this week, says the latter path is the only way forward. In a podcast interview with International Business Times,…
Were the 2016 Democratic Primaries Rigged?
Was the 2016 Democratic primary rigged? It depends on what your definition of the word "rigged" is — but a top campaign adviser to Bernie Sanders declared that after new revelations this past week, "it is unquestionably the case that the DNC was not neutral" during the contest. That declaration came during an International Business Times…
Pussy Riot Founder Slams Liberals' Obsession with Putin
Vladimir Putin has become a fixture in the U.S. political conversation, as a majority of Americans have come to believe he helped rig the 2016 election for Donald Trump. Yet one prominent anti-Putin activist who was jailed by the Russian government says, in a new podcast interview, that America's political class is deliberately promoting an inaccurate…
The Department of Justice's Corporate Watchdog Resigns in Disgust, Slams Trump on the Way Out
One of the Justice Department's top corporate crime watchdogs has resigned, declaring that she cannot enforce ethics laws against companies while, she asserts, her own bosses in the Trump administration have been engaging in conduct that she said she would never tolerate in corporations. Hui Chen -- a former Pfizer and Microsoft lawyer who also was…
Why Progressives Lose - Even In California
As Republican lawmakers grapple with their unpopular bill to repeal Obamacare, Democrats have tried to present a united front on health care. But for all their populist rhetoric against insurance and drug companies, Democratic powerbrokers and their allies remain deeply divided on the issue — to the point where a political civil war has spilled into…
Impeach Trump and You'd Get 'Zealot' Pence, Franken Says
If Donald Trump were impeached, as some Democrats would like, Mike Pence "would be worse" for domestic policy than the current president, U.S. Sen. Al Franken told International Business Times. But the vice president would be less dangerous on foreign policy, said Franken. Franken made the comments in an interview with IBT during a stop on…
Trump's Businesses Have a Long, Nasty History of Money-Laundering Charges
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Orica Australia Pty Ltd.'s West Africa Supply Chain and East Africa Supply Chain Recertified Under International Cyanide Management Code
The International Cyanide Management Institute (ICMI) announced today that Orica Australia Pty Ltd.'s (Orica) West Africa Supply Chain and East Africa Supply Chain have been recertified in full compliance with the International Cyanide Management Code (Cyanide Code).
Orica is a signatory to the Cyanide Code as both a cyanide producer and separately as a consignor/transporter. As a consignor/transporter, Orica organizes and manages supply chains comprised of companies it has contracted to transport cyanide. Orica's West Africa Supply Chain and East Africa Supply Chain were initially certified in May 2011 and recertified in September 2014. ICMI has received and accepted a Detailed Audit Findings Report for each supply chain prepared by an independent professional third-party auditor who evaluated Orica's East Africa Supply Chain and West Africa Supply Chain against ICMI's Transportation Verification Protocol and found them in full compliance with the Cyanide Code's Principles and Transport Practices. The Summary Audit Reports and Auditor Credentials Forms are available on Orica's Transport Signatory Companies Page on the Cyanide Code web site: https://www.cyanidecode.org/signatory-company/orica-australia-ltd. The operations must be re-audited every three years to evaluate continuing compliance with the Cyanide Code.
The Cyanide Code is a voluntary industry program for companies involved in the production of gold and/or silver using cyanide and companies producing and transporting this cyanide. It was developed under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme by a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee. The Cyanide Code is intended to complement an operation's existing obligation to comply with the applicable laws and regulations of the political jurisdictions in which the operation is located.


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Fewer summer school course offerings leave Shelby County students on a waitlist
By Caroline Bauman - June 8, 2015 - Updated June 9, 2015
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Since 1948, East High School has served students in Memphis.
Shelby County Schools' summer school registration closed last week with a waiting list of 200 students and many parents worrying whether their children will get to take the courses they need.
Only four high schools in Memphis, compared with six last summer, are offering summer courses—the result of a 35 percent cut in the district's $1.8 million budget for the program. Last year, with a summer school budget of more than $2.8 million, there was no waitlist.
"We try to accommodate all parents and students, but we're dealing with limited time and tighter funding," said Denise Swan, a summer school program coordinator.
The budget cut was based on the district's decreased enrollment due primarily to the absorption of students and schools by new municipal school districts created following the 2013 merger of Shelby County Schools with Memphis City Schools, said district spokesman Christian Ross.
About 15 percent of the district's students take classes during the summer, whether to make up failed coursework or to take additional courses.
During last week's three-day registration period, Karen Brown was among parents who stood in line to register Wednesday at Ridgeway High School. She managed to register her rising 10th-grader for a class, but other parents were turned away by school officials due to crowd congestion.
"Only four sites open for high school isn't enough when you've got so many students in Memphis failing," said Brown, who arrived at Ridgeway at 8 a.m., four hours before registration opened.
Rachel Dubose, whose son will be a senior at Ridgeway, said she waited for four hours Tuesday before being turned away. She was back at Ridgeway two hours before registration opened at noon on Wednesday but had to leave at 1:30 to get to work—again without registering her son for a math course that he needs to graduate.
"Should my kid get punished because I can't take off work again?" Dubose asked. "What happens to kids when the classes get filled because their parents can't be there?"
"Only four sites open for high school isn't enough when you've got so many students in Memphis failing."
Students who can't take needed summer courses will have the option to take an online credit recovery course in the fall, Swan said.
The district plans for summer school enrollment based on the previous summer's enrollment, which was 6,700 students. But the smaller budget impacted how many students the district was able to accommodate this year, Swan said.
"Planning for summer school is a tight turnaround, as many students don't know if they will need it or not before report cards come out at the end of the year," she said.
The budget for next summer's program is relatively unchanged from this year. However, to improve the registration process, district officials hope to move to an online system, which the district will roll out in July for the coming school year.
Students at charter and municipal schools also had the option to register last Thursday if space was available for district summer programs. However, students with Shelby County Schools got first priority.
Only three municipal districts—in Cordova, Arlington and Collierville—are offering summer programs.
A complete list of summer schools and their courses can be found on Shelby County Schools' district website.
Editor's note: This story corrects municipality names in the penultimate paragraph.
By Caroline Bauman @CarolineBmn cbauman@chalkbeat.org
In this story: Online registration, Registration, School funding, Shelby County Schools, summer school
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Home BUSINESS Bidco To Install 3,920 Solar Panels On Its Rooftops In A Bid To Cut Energy Costs.
Bidco To Install 3,920 Solar Panels On Its Rooftops In A Bid To Cut Energy Costs.
Thika-Based Bidco Africa Ltd. plans to install 3,920 solar panels on the rooftops of its buildings in a bid to cut its energy costs.
The 1.2 megawatt (MW) solar plant is set to start in June and will take six months to complete, eventually saving millions of shillings in power costs annually for Kenya's leading manufacturer of edible oils, cooking fats, soaps, and detergents.
The project is also set to shrink the company's carbon footprint as emissions drop. Bidco currently generates 70% of its energy needs from sawdust, macadamia husks and other agricultural waste through co-generation.
Solar energy, priced at between Sh6 and Sh7 per kilowatt hour (kWh) will be for Bidco's exclusive use. At Sh7, the solar plant electricity is about the same price as geothermal energy and about three times cheaper than diesel generated power.
"We have plenty of rooftop space available and this project can put our energy situation in our own hands, at an affordable price, which is a fantastic position to be in," Bidco chief executive Vimal Shah said in a statement.
Bidco joins Centum Investment which is constructing a 2 MW solar plant to power its Two Rivers Development-- a Nairobi-based real estate project that is designed to host the largest shopping mall in the East and Central Africa region.
Bidco's solar project will be developed by Astonfield Solar.
Companies developing solar plants in the country include Kenyan firms Kopere Solar Park and Kenya Solar Energy, each with an installed capacity of 40 MW to be injected to the national grid.
Garden City Mall on Nairobi's Thika Road launched a solar carport last September that generates part of the electricity consumed at the shopping complex. Strathmore University has installed solar panels with a capacity of 0.6 MW.
Others are UK firm Solarcentury, Green Energy Africa and Greenmillenia Energy.
"The 1.2 megawatt-peak (MWp) capacity project will generate over 1.8 million kilowatt hours (kWh) and deliver power at half the grid cost saving Bidco about Sh650 million over its 25-year life cycle," says Vimal.
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Bryan's Best of the Decade, 2012-2022
On October 19, 2022 By Bryan MoreyIn progressive metal, progressive rock4 Comments
As we here at Progarchy continue to celebrate our tenth anniversary, we're moving from talking about our favorite artists of the decade to our favorite albums. Since 2014 I've compiled a "best of" list highlighting my favorite music of the year. Looking back, I still stand behind my lists because they represent where I was with music at the time. But now as I look back and try to compile a top ten for 2012-2022, my list looks a little bit different. The following list reflects my views and tastes regarding the last ten years as they sit right now. It's all very fluid and subjective.
But enough blathering. On with my top ten. The only limit I put on myself was I didn't want to repeat artists, because otherwise it would all be Big Big Train or Neal Morse and Mike Portnoy. Limiting myself to one album from each of those artists was difficult, but I'll steer you back to my yearly best of lists at the end of the article, for those artists abound in those lists.
[Headline links, for those that have them, link to Progarchy reviews, articles, or interviews associated with the album.]
10. Pain of Salvation – In The Passing Light Of Day (2017) I missed this album when it came out, although I remember reading about it in Prog magazine. I came to appreciate Pain of Salvation with their 2020 album, Panther, which was my top album of the year. I finally started to dig into their back catalog this summer, and I've been blown away. In The Passing Light Of Day is a brilliant tour-de-force of emotions. Some of the lyrics I think are too sexually explicit, which is primarily why I rank it at number 10 and why I almost kicked it off my top ten. But the music and melodies are so good, and most of the lyrics are incredibly profound. I also think Ragnar Zolberg brought a lot to the table and was a great balance to Daniel Gildenlöw.
9. The Neal Morse Band – Innocence and Danger (2021)
It was hard to pick one of the MANY albums made by Neal Morse and Mike Portnoy over the past decade. They're all just so good, so I took the easy way out and picked the most recent. I think this is the most well put-together of all the Neal Morse Band albums. "Beyond the Years" is one of the finest pieces of music to come out of the last several years.
8. TesseracT – Portals (2021)
Portals is a brilliant album. It is unique on this list for being a live release, but it is also unique for being a live-in-studio release – a product of the pandemic. I suppose that's why I don't rank it higher on this list, but I've been listening to it a ton since it came out. I even broke down recently and bought the fancy deluxe CD/DVD/Blu-ray edition. I think most of the tracks on here sound better than they do on the original albums. The album also introduced me to the band, as well as to the world of djent. The way the band blends djent riffs with Floydian spacey motifs is just perfect. One of the finest bands in the world right now.
7. Haken – The Mountain (2013)
I go in spurts when listening to Haken (like I do with many bands). The Mountain has a magnificent blend of metal with splashes of 70s golden age prog. Songs like "Atlas Stone," "The Cockroach King," "Falling Back to Earth," and "Pareidolia" have become prog metal classics, in my book. I've come to think Haken isn't as compelling in their quiet tracks as bands like Riverside of TesseracT, but this entire album is still very listenable nine years later.
6. Marillion – F.E.A.R. (2016)
Marillion's F.E.A.R. was my introduction to the band, and I've thoroughly enjoyed diving back into their catalog. I'd have to say I think this is one of their best with Hogarth. Their latest album, "An Hour Before It's Dark," comes very close to it, but "Reprogram the Gene" knocks it down a peg for me. F.E.A.R. combines musical prowess with cultural critique to wonderful effect, even if I may disagree with Hogarth at points.
5. Riverside – Shrine of New Generation Slaves (2013)
I had a hard time deciding which of Riverside's three studio albums from the past decade to choose. Love, Fear and the Time Machine and Wasteland are both brilliant, and if I had allowed myself to choose multiple albums from the same artist in a top ten, Wasteland would probably be here too, but I think Shrine edges both of them out. It's heavy, both musically and lyrically. Several of the songs turn into real earworms for me, and I'm never disappointed when I return to this record. And it's another one on this list that I discovered several years after its release.
4. Oak – False Memory Archive (2018)
Oak is my favorite new band of the last decade. Both their 2013 (2016 release on CD) album Lighthouse and 2018's False Memory Archive are brilliant albums, if not perfect. This record was my top album of 2018, and Lighthouse was my top album of 2016 (I didn't realize at the time it had been released digitally earlier). The Norwegian melancholic aesthetic is dripping from both albums. It was hard to pick one of the two, but the closing track on False Memory Archive, "Psalm 51," is one of the finest album closers I've ever heard. I think that gives this record the edge.
3. Devin Townsend – Empath (2019)
I was blown away by Devin Townsend's Empath when it came out – so much so that I bought the 2CD deluxe version that year and the super deluxe version when Inside Out funded that project the next year. The record masterfully blends all the aspects of Devin's career into a truly unique and truly Devin experience. It has the heavy bombast of Strapping Young Lad at points, yet it'll soar into orchestral and even operatic highs elsewhere – or even at the same time. Pure musical theater in the best way. Devin's vocal performance on "Why?" is stunning, and the message of hope on "Spirits Will Collide" is always a pleasant reminder that life is worth living. The production side of things, with Devin's famed "wall of sound," is unmatched in his career, or anyone else's for that matter.
2. Steven Wilson – Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)
Here we come to one of the truly great albums of our time. I would certainly rank this in a top 10 best albums of all time. Back in 2015, this album was my number 3 pick, with The Tangent's "A Spark in the Aether" coming in at number 1. Now I still think that's a great record, and I wrestled with whether or not to include it in my top 10, but I think over time Wilson's masterpiece has proven to be a generational album. Both the music and the story sound fresh, even seven years and many listens later. The themes of isolation and loneliness in city life (or life in general) will always be relatable. Someone 100 years from now could listen to this record, and while they may miss some of the references (even I still miss some of them), the underlying theme will still connect. That's what places this record up there with the likes of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
1. Big Big Train – English Electric: Full Power (2013)
The defining band and defining album for the last decade of prog. Looking back, this record was the one that got me into the contemporary progressive rock scene. Returning to it today is a special treat, as I hope it always will be. It contains everything you might want out of a quintessentially "English" progressive rock band. It has the rock, the folk elements, the complex musicality, the well-told stories. And then there's David Longdon's voice, showing us his command of the material and his command of the upcoming several years in the prog scene. When I traveled to England in 2015 (which to me felt like a longer distance between its release than it feels between now and that visit – it's weird how your perception of time changes as you grow older) I really wanted to listen to this album while being out in the hedgerows and fields. I can still remember sitting on a bus traveling between towns listening to English Electric (I wrote more about this in a piece back in 2016). There are a lot of good emotions connected to this record for me. But beyond that, Big Big Train showed us all that they were THE powerhouse in the new generation of prog bands. They were who all the younger bands were going to look up to for the next decade, and they did it all themselves. Sure, the journey began when Longdon boarded back in 2009 for The Underfall Yard, but English Electric was where they really picked up steam. Every album since has been magnificent, with many topping my best of lists in the ensuing years, but this one will always be the quintessential Big Big Train album for me.
As a coda to this review of the past decade in the best of prog, I want to give you the albums I picked as my favorites for the years 2014-2021 (I didn't start my best of lists until '14). I'll include links to those lists as well. I find it interesting how I've "discovered" albums and bands even within the last year that have soared up my list, even if I missed them when they came out. Better late than never.
2014 – Flying Colors – Second Nature – I saw them live right after this was released. It's a great record and a great band, but the poppier edge doesn't stick with me as much as the records on my list above do.
2015 – The Tangent – A Spark in the Aether – I shared above how Wilson's Hand. Cannot. Erase. has grown in my estimation. I still think this is one of The Tangent's finest records.
2016 – Oak – Lighthouse – Even if its original release was 2013, this record still dominated my listening in 2016 and was my album of that year.
2017 – Big Big Train – Grimspound, The Second Brightest Star, London Song, Merry Christmas EP – Enough said. Brilliant band. Brilliant music. Brilliant year for them.
2018 – Oak – False Memory Archive
2019 – Devin Townsend – Empath
2020 – Pain of Salvation – Panther – I still think this is a great album. I listened to it yesterday at work, in fact. It was my intro to the band, and maybe I was shocked by how different it was from everything else I had been listened to in the genre. I'd still rank this record extremely highly, but I don't know if I would put it at the top of the list if I were making a 2020 list today.
2021 – Big Big Train – Common Ground – What can I say? I like Big Big Train.
Thanks for reading through all this. If you've been a prog fan throughout this past decade, I hope this brought back some good memories. If you're new to prog, consider every album mentioned in this post as your homework over the coming weeks. Prepare to be blown away.
Here's to hoping the next decade is even better.
Immersed in Memory: The Rising Brilliance of Oak
On October 17, 2018 October 21, 2018 By Bryan MoreyIn progressive rock11 Comments
Oak, False Memory Archive, 2018
Tracks: We, The Drowned (5:24), Claire De Lune (7:16), False Memory Archive (4:56), Lost Causes (8:30), Intermezzo (1:42), The Lights (10:34), These Are The Stars We're Aiming For (4:19), Transparent Eyes (4:59), Psalm 51 (7:26)
[Edit: The original version of this review included a track listing with the wrong track order. I offer my sincerest apologies to the band and to our readers for this mistake.]
Have you ever found yourself so utterly satisfied by something in life that you find yourself feeling guilty for enjoying it? For me, that is Oak's music. Their two albums are flawless. Every note. Every theme. Every lyric. Every wash of sound. Perfection.
2016's Lighthouse blew me away. I'm not sure how much attention the band has received in more popular press (i.e., Prog magazine), but beyond Progarchy, the Dutch Progressive Rock Page (where I and Andy Read have promoted the group), Prog Sphere, and the Prog Mind, I haven't seen the band covered all that much. That is a downright shame because this band has reached into a completely new level of brilliance.
Oak is prog in the vein of Pink Floyd's, Riverside's, Porcupine Tree's, and Steven Wilson's atmospheric and contemplative moments. Unlike those bands, Oak never abandon that overarching theme. Their new album, False Memory Archive, may start with a pounding drum intro reminiscent of the heavier moments in rock history, but that does not take the band away from their overall sound. Instead, it grounds them in rock, and it allows them to explore broad soundscapes. The band goes from quiet contemplative moments to heavy guitar driven rock in places all over the album. Throughout the first track, the heavy drumming seemingly contradicts the warm vocals and soothing piano and synth sounds, but when taken together it really doesn't. The end result is a layered effect that allows the music to build gradually.
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